Course Resources
Building the Project Directory
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writing a README file
- a template for a good README
- The Art of README, a tutorial about READMEs and how to write them
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using the Unix build tool
make- a simple tutorial
- a local bundle with the tutorial and all the source files
Writing Compilers
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textbooks
- Introduction to Compilers and Language Design, by Douglas Thain — (recommended)
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Basics of Compiler Design, by Torben Mogensen
- pdf file on the course website
- website with supporting material
- print copy of Introduction to Compiler Design, a shorter and updated version of the online text
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Compiler Construction, by Kenneth Louden
- website with supporting material
- local mirror of the code for the textbook
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Compiler Construction, by Niklaus Wirth
— a short classic
- website with pdf files and source code
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The Theory of Parsing, Translation, and Compiling,
by Alfred Aho and Jeffrey Ullman
- scanned pdf of this forerunner to the Dragon book
- other resources
Tools We Use and Study
- Graphviz: home | Mac OS X binary | run in a browser
- JFLAP: home | local download
Lexical Analysis
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scanner generators
- JLex: website | local download
- Flex: website
- JFlex: website
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tutorials
- Building Standalone Lexers with lex, by Matt Might
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regular expressions
- RegExr, a web-based regex matcher with explanation
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Implementing Regular Expressions,
by Russ Cox
— see especially Regular Expression Matching Can Be Simple And Fast - A Regular Expression Matcher, by Brian Kernighan and Rob Pike
Syntactic Analysis
Static Analysis Tools
- PMD, a cross-language static checker